Leakes, 51, stirred up controversy this month after claiming that she gave the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, 58, the idea for Pump. “She did some real foul s—t to me,” the fashion designer said on the February 1 episode of Jenny McCarthy’s SiriusXM show, noting that she and husband Gregg Leakes once wanted to buy the lot on Santa Monica Boulevard where Pump Restaurant stands.

“At the time, Greg and I were living in [Los Angeles] and I was working on Glee and New Normal,” the Never Make the Same Mistake Twice author explained. “We ride down the West Hollywood area where all the gay bars are — and I have a large gay fan base — and I kept thinking, ‘It would be so cool if I had a bar right in here somewhere.’ And that space was empty and kind of raggedy-looking and torn down.”

Leakes then ran the idea by the Beverly Hills-based restaurateur, who currently owns Hollywood hotspots Villa Blanca and SUR. “She said, ‘Oh, darling, it’s a piece of crap and they’re charging so much for it, darling,” the Atlanta resident recalled. “She talked me out of it and then went and got it. … That’s so f—ked up.”